ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,245, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS (Jiangsu, China).

"Neural network-based NARMA-L2 multivariable control method" was invented by Jinquan Huang (Jiangsu, China), Jie Tang (Jiangsu, China), Feng Lu (Jiangsu, China), Xiaojie Chou (Jiangsu, China), Yahui Gao (Jiangsu, China) and Haiqin Qin (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a neural network-based NARMA-L2 multivariable control method, which includes: deriving a NARMA-L2 multivariable control law of a nonlinear discrete system; using neural networks to offline identify nonlinear functions ...